showing question #73
question from jim of applejuice
I am now happy, knowing the answers! My latest question relates to a certain minardi f1 team. The question is this. Why to they bother, when they can’t even write a decent gearbox program! How difficult can it be, eh, eh ,eh!
All Minardi need to make them competitive against the likes of BAR and Prost is a couple of top class drivers. I would suggest Damon Hill and Michael Andretti.
The gearbox issue is one that has plagued both programmers and beekeepers for decades. Here was my attempt, for the highly successful Footwork team, written at the time in Javascript. This example shows changing to a higher gear.
if (accelerator == “on” && revs > 17000 &&gear